President 2012: Mike Huckabee Asking Folks to Keep Their Powder Dry

One of Mike Huckabee’s political confidantes in the early primary state of South Carolina spoke with the former Arkansas governor Thursday and received assurances that he is still “seriously” weighing a presidential bid.

Mike Campbell, who chaired Huckabee’s South Carolina campaign in 2008, told CNN that he called his former boss after a South Carolina blog erroneously claimed that Huckabee had decided against running again in 2012.

The report quickly shot around the web Wednesday and forced Huckabee’s team to knock down the rumor.

Campbell called the blog item “a bunch of bull” but said he decided to call Huckabee anyway.

“He said, ‘Mike, obviously that’s unfounded and completely untrue,'” Campbell said of his conversation with Huckabee. “He told me, ‘I’m just asking folks to keep their powder dry because there may be something coming in the future that may be worth keeping your powder dry for.”

Asked about his presidential intentions, the former Arkansas governor told Campbell, “I am weighing it very heavily and I am considering it as seriously as I have ever been.”

I say Huck will run and when you see Chuck Norris make an appearance, then we will know for sure. Ed Rollin’s statement a while ago was key.

Huckabee was NOT considering the race but with all of the polls showing him doing so well, he has been persuaded to go for it.